Nova Scotia · Registered charity
A HAND UP SOCIETY
A HAND UP SOCIETY (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$40,138 to it, the largest being United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes (C$15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
A HAND UP SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,008 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,008 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The W. B. Wells Heritage Foundationlocal
- Feed Nova Scotia Societyportfolio match
- Food Banks British Columbiaportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 44% · 2023 27% · 2024 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of A HAND UP SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the CRA filings of A HAND UP SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
A HAND UP SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund A HAND UP SOCIETY.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
99% of A HAND UP SOCIETY's grant income comes from Nova Scotia funders.
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$15k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 region is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The W. B. Wells Heritage FoundationlocalNS · funds 13 organizations near you
- Feed Nova Scotia Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food Banks British Columbiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bethany United Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sussex Sharing Club Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Masonic Foundation of Nova Scotiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bert and Shari Frizzell Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lighthouse Church Paocportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Halifaxportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food for Life Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Halifax Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poorportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government revenue A HAND UP SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 37% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like A HAND UP SOCIETY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every charity on the CRA register — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Nova Scotia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds A HAND UP SOCIETY?
- A HAND UP SOCIETY (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$40,138 to it, the largest being United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes (C$15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does A HAND UP SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 4 organizations giving C$40,138 in grants to A HAND UP SOCIETY.
- Who is the largest funder of A HAND UP SOCIETY?
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes is the largest funder on record, with C$15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like A HAND UP SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nova Scotia.
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These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register